In Buchach, the roosters wake up at four o’clock in the morning. Perhaps the voices of the Buchach roosters have not changed since [Shem’uel Yosef] Agnon lived in the city. And now, during my stay...
Many among us indeed consider Taras Shevchenko a linguistic curiosity. To them, it appears to be an oddity, a curiosity: the man had an excellent command of Russian and was able to pen his poems...
Clarinetist Mitya Gerasimov, the leader of the Kyiv-based Pushkin Klezmer Band, reveals how klezmer is linked to jazz, fakelore, and new but traditional Jewish music. Iryna Slavinska: In this podcast we will be listening to...
“With this film I want to break the silence in Israel on the Holodomor,” said Israeli actor, director, and producer Dim Amor in an interview with the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter. The film is being shot...
Several weeks ago we posted Marko Robert Stech’s television segment Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») № 97, dedicated to prominent Lviv artists Roman Selsky and Magrit (Reich) Selska. Dr. Stech, a Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian,...
Maryana Maksymiak on the Agnon Literary Center in Buchach and Agnon House in Jerusalem. Iryna Slavinska: Maryna Maksymiak recently returned from a trip to Israel, where the work of the Agnon Center was presented. Many...
Borsch. Nalysnyky. Daruny. |Borsht. Blintses. Latkes. Varied names. But the same food. And a shared heritage. We invite you to enjoy a newly designed version of our popular brochure Ukrainian-Jewish Cross-Cultural Influences in Language and Cuisine. It...
Diane Covert is a Boston-based photographer who uses her talent and love of the craft to bring attention to genocide and terrorism. Diane’s work was brought to my attention by Allison Zivin at the Felshtin...
Since 2011 Canadian literary scholar, cultural historian, and writer Marko Robert Stech has produced short (8- to 10-minute) Ukrainian-language TV segments Ochyma Cultury («Очима культури») dedicated to little-known and/or underappreciated phenomena in Ukrainian culture or,...
Our featured guest today is Boris Czerny, who teaches Russian language and culture at the University of Caen Normandy in France. On today’s edition of Encounters, we have an opportunity to get to know a...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.
